If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. – Aboriginal activists group, 1970s If you drop by the Innovation Team office, you might overhear someone say that we need to “look for […]

“Communication, respect, and trust are the most important aspects of all relationships.” The Innovation Team spent its first year in City Hall focused on equity in housing outcomes for residents of color. Housing equity was an obvious first area of focus, as Minneapolis demonstrates some of the most glaring disparities in housing-related outcomes when compared to […]

When we began working on Equitable Business Development, we started by asking questions about small business ownership, overall, in Minneapolis. When it comes to small business, are there gaps in who owns businesses and how those businesses are doing, and can we define those gaps along lines of race? Our initial quantitative research shows that […]